Help !!!!

[topshelf]

i just picked up a 7 month old choc lab with a great hunting pedigree but shows very little to no retrieving drive what can i do. Keep in mind he is a very shy dog he is getting better only had him a week and want to keep him bad but he needs to retrieve please help

[chocdog]

Hi Topshelf give the pup time to settel in and play with him wher did you get him from

[franklauzon]

Go buy a bumper, white, they're 6-7$ each, get the dog really excited using a baby voice, and then toss it close by, the dog SHOULD run out and grab the bumper, likely not return it, but should pick it up..

If that doesn't work, try attaching a duck wing to an old fishing rod, and get the pup to chase it let it catch the wing once in a while...

All you can really do is get the dog excited about playing, and in the end retrieving if it still wants nothing to do with it, you'd be farther along replacing the pup...

If you want to keep it, there no such thing as a desire drill, and you don't want to have to force your pup on every retrieve, and you'll get frustrated quickly. Keep it as a pet, and get another dog... Preferably black, since they're genetically superior!!:fencing:

[rocko]

"Preferably black, since they're genetically superior" <------ :stirpot: ha ha ha

[rocko]

Try teasing him with a dead pigeon......and then toss it out there.

He won't be able to resist that.....its like waving a piece of pizza in front of your face!! :pizza:

[Anna Scott]

If you have access to a live pigeon get one and put it in a knee high nylon sock, make a slit for one wing to protrude and tie the open end. let it go on the lawn and let pup chase it . the knee high keeps the pup from getting scratched or pecked. I also know trainers who put a live pigeon in the pups pen.
With desire we say you can take it out of a pup but you can't put it in.

[Mike Bons]

If you have access to a live pigeon get one and put it in a knee high nylon sock, make a slit for one wing to protrude and tie the open end. let it go on the lawn and let pup chase it . the knee high keeps the pup from getting scratched or pecked. I also know trainers who put a live pigeon in the pups pen.
With desire we say you can take it out of a pup but you can't put it in.


I remember there was a time when I doubted if one of mine had enough desire to even be a decent hunting dog. So I did what Anna suggested with the live pigeon, and it was like a magical switch turned on. It truly was amazing to see the difference. Now of course, my biggest battle with that dog is steadiness.
Mike

[topshelf]

thank you for your ideas going to try every thing to train him

[nimkii]

He's a good lookin pup. He'll come around. From your earlier posts and describing how timid he is and what I saw today he'll be just fine. There are so many people to help out at LOHRC and on this site as well you'll have him going in no time.

[just chessies]

You can not put an old head on young shoulders,take your time and let the pup bond with you. I had a pup like that once, I would throw a few bumpers for him and if he lost interest and wanted to explore I would quit training and let him do it,after a time he started to look forward to retrieving and being with me. Take your time

[chocdog]

hay Frank ifyou saw our chocdogs run you would change you mind Iwould not swap my chocdogs for any thing

[Anna Scott]

I might swap the one that helped the hound eat a goose and then throw feathers and bones up all over the place. That hound can create more havoc than all 7 of the labs put together.Not really sure how she got the goose. May have hit the wires or been hit by a car or the owls or coyotes got it but Molly managed to hide it. I think we have it all picked up now. Made for some interesting training yesterday as the dogs had to run passed all the scent patches.

[chocdog]

I might swap the one that helped the hound eat a goose and then throw feathers and bones up all over the place. That hound can create more havoc than all 7 of the labs put together.Not really sure how she got the goose. May have hit the wires or been hit by a car or the owls or coyotes got it but Molly managed to hide it. I think we have it all picked up now. Made for some interesting training yesterday as the dogs had to run passed all the scent patches.

what one was that Anna it was not my little sweet heart was it

[Anna Scott]

No it was the other chubby brown one

[topshelf]

i am sorry to say that after taking the pup to two trainers both have said i am in over my head to train this dog and both declining too take the dog on for training i have decided to let him go to a family pet home so if you know someone looking for a great family dog let them know i have one CHEAP ha ha phone number is (705) 799 0060

[graftongal]

Topshelf, I sent you a PM if you're lurking around!